That is a blessedly beautiful place.

Seeing how you struggle with this weapon in comparison to a longsword really helps me understand the skill required to use this weapon.

Montante are cool badass weapons. I was lucky enough to take a class with Steve Hicks back in 2007 or 8. The rules for fighting multiple opponents are interesting. Also, totally jealous of the beautiful training location. Here in Seattle, winter is just one rainy day followed by more rainy days.

el tamaño promedio del montante rondaba unos 150 cm, pero algunos alcanzaban los 180 cm de longitud, debido a su gran tamaño y peso, se requería fuerza y un entrenamiento diferenciado de la esgrima ortodoxa era manejar correctamente un montante, en el siglo XVI destacaron particularmente los mercenarios alemanes lansquenetes especializados en su uso, ellos llamaban Zweihänder al montante, tengo entendido que su uso abarco un periodo de tiempo comprendido entre el siglo XV y mediados del XVII en Japón, durante el período Kamakura (1185-1392) los maestros espaderos, probablemente inspirados por un tipo de gran espada china de gran porte, crearon la enorme espada japonesa conocida como 'ōdachi'', de una longitud que variaba entre 140 y 180 cm. este sable gigantesco fue utilizado exitosamente en los campos de batalla nipones, junto con las mucho mas numerosas katanas hasta principios del siglo diecisiete, cuando fue relegada a arma ceremonial, debido al periodo prospero y pacifico iniciado por los Shogunes Tokugawa la ōdachi, y el mandoble o montante se esgrimen de manera muy similar, con predominancia de movimientos circulares y dinámicos giros corporales cuando fue relegada a arma ceremonial, debido al periodo prospero y pacifico iniciado por los Shogunes Tokugawa kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i79jlL2X19yvnY0.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ps6XbKd93qeqoWg.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e9djodqr2pe5iKs.html

i absolutely love the actual idea of that weapon, the use and the place of it in socioty....its just beautiful

It was a very difficult sword to use, the Tercios soldiers who used it were paid twice as much as a Piquero

I'm impressed with you maintaining a stable stance in that snow.

Good stuff Federico. Looking forward to the next one.

Nice video :) I'm kinda jealous of the snow you got there :D

very cool

Looking good!

Wonderfull work and great setting :-) We have a lot of snow here in the hills as well, but had not chance to go up there for filming. Cheers from us scottish-german Broadsworders.

Happy New Year, Federico!

Muy bien ,muy bien

thanks for sharing! aside from learning and practicing technique of a really cool weapon, this looks like a really good full body work out. I would like to see a football field full of kids doing these drills with safer trainers suited to their sizes, simlutaneously in a sort of giant choreography as their physical education class in some small northern Italian town. Make this happen.

Revez long blade...Is that Marozzo?

very interesting source, paired with your amazing training location. if i may ask, i'm curious about your gambeson and the (attack on titan?) patch you are wearing

Great explanations. Please continue this series! Can you share any details on Black Fencer Montante? How long did you wait for the order, how is it made, how does it feel? There are not many details on their site.

All combat arts have the same principles. One of them is everything at once. Don’t let part of your body be ahead or behind the rest. “All at once” is the principle. The other is natural movement, natural occurrence. These and a few others transcend styles.

Hello Mr. Malagutti, will you have more parts for the montante? Great video and presentation!

This was the master in arms sign of master weapon, at first glance its a simple weapon with basic moves, but require lost of strength endurance and equilibrium, and technique to proper wield it

hi federico, i have been following your channel for a while now and i'm a big fan of your content because of your calm and reasonable explanations and opinions. i have a question i would like to ask you: do you think it is ever viable to attempt an off-hand (left for the right-handed) sideways or upwards swing with a long sword from a frontal guard like "Eisenport", that is, without pulling back for momentum and impact? i have practiced several basic movements from both the main-hand and off-hand side and i used to think my off-hand strikes lacked intensity due to my insufficient physical strength, but over the weeks it is becoming clear to me that the speed i can accomplish with my off-hand swings is laughable compared to that of my main-hand swings when attempting to execute strikes in a quick manner, by accelerating the blade into an attack directly from a frontal guard. so i guess the question essentially is: does it ever make sense to attack with a large two-handed weapon from a position that does not allow a high degree of acceleration for the sake of quickness? related to this video, i have one more question: the following is curiosity, not criticism. in this video, it appeared to me like you were not keeping the blade aligned with the direction of the swing until the end of a sweep, but rather you rotated the blade (length-axis) while your movements merged out of the swing into the next attack. in my very short personal "training", i have been keeping an eye on preventing exactly this, as to be able to make a more effective cut. when using very large swords like this Montante, is it better to go for a movement that allows you to transition faster into following movements, the way you showed in this video, since the momentum and impact of such a large weapon is already such a big threat in itself, or is it actually important to keep the blade aligned with the sweep direction? i'm not expecting you to respond. if you decided to do so, though, i would feel very grateful. in any case, thank you for the great content. i wish you only the best with the future of this channel and otherwise!

What Jacket is that you're wearing?

Do you know other recommended sources in English ? It seems to be a very interesting and serious paper but I don't speak spanish :s. Or perhaps will you translate the movement through videos.

Do you plan on doing a part 2?

your jacket has the survey corps logo lol

Bellissimo! Regenyei Made? Please more solo drills and flow!

I want to be able to move this smoothly with my 20 pound dragonslayer! Check me out brother!